ROYALTY IN EGYPT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 19 January 1912, Page 5

ROYALTY IN EGYPT.

RECEPTION AT PORT SAID

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PORT SAID, Jan. 18

Lord Kitchener and Sir Francis Wingate (Sirdar of the Egyptian Army), and representatives of the' Khedive, greeted their Majesties, who landed and held a reception to the shieks and chiefs of the Upper Nile tribes, many of whom travelled hundreds of miles.

The .King, in a speech, extolled chivalrous General Gordon and Tewfik Bey's defence of Sinkat, in 1884, and said the object., of the present administration was to bring the Soudan into ■closer touch with civilisation.

Their Majesties were entertained at Sinkat, and reviewed the Soudanese troops, including 3500 cavalry. They "witnessed native damces and returned to the steamer Medina.